Red Sox GM Search Appears To Be Narrowed Down To Two Candidates

Boston will need to fill their front-office vacancies in the near future

Scott Neville | Oct 21, 2023

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The Boston Red Sox started their search for a new leader of baseball operations with more rejections than a door-to-door salesman.

After expanding the pool, they finally found a few executives willing to at least interview for the role. The Red Sox were quite thorough in their search, with at least eight confirmed interviewees.

The long-winded search seemingly is coming to a close in the near future with two executives shining through.

"(Minnesota Twins general manager) Thad Levine and (Chicago Cubs assistant general manager) Craig Breslow are both prominently in the mix for Red Sox top baseball job(s)," The New York Post's Jon Heyman reported Friday.

The Red Sox have to fill both the top spot in baseball operations -- which will include a made-up title such as chief baseball officer or president of baseball operations -- as well as the general manager spot. The latter is second in command and typically runs the day-to-day transactions such as injury list stints and call ups.

It is noteworthy that Heyman said they are in the mix for the "top job(s)" as that could imply that both would come over as a duo. However, there was speculation that Breslow would not leave Chicago unless he were to succeed Chaim Bloom and it would not make sense for Levine to depart from Minnesota for a lateral move.

It also seems very likely that Eddie Romero becomes the new general manager.

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Published Oct 21, 2023

SCOTT NEVILLE

Scott Neville covers the Boston Red Sox for Sports Illustrated's new page "Inside The Red Sox." Before starting "Inside The Red Sox", Neville attended Merrimack College, where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Media with a minor in Marketing. Neville spent all four years with Merrimack's radio station WMCK, where he grew as a radio/podcast host and producer. His propensity for being in front of a microphone eventually expanded to film, where he produced multiple short films alongside his then-roommate and current co-worker Stephen Mottram. On a journey that began as a way to receive easy credits via film classes, he received a call from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" star Charlie Day. Day advised him to make a feature-length film, which he completed his senior year. While writing the film, Neville completed an internship for United Way as part of their NFL Partnership Program. Neville ran the blog for a team of interns and hosted an internet show called "United Way's NFL Partnership Series" where he interviewed NFL alumni. After college Neville wrote for SB Nation's "Over The Monster," a Red Sox sister site of the flagship brand. His work would eventually lead him to a job as a content producer with NESN, where he would cover all sports. After developing as a writer with the top regional network in the world, he was given the opportunity to join the Sports Illustrated Media Group in his current endeavor as the publisher of "Inside The Red Sox." The successful launch and quick rise of "Inside The Red Sox" led to Neville joining the Baseball Essential ownership group, a national baseball site under SIMG. Follow him on Twitter: @ScottNeville46 Email: nevilles@merrimack.edu